A method and a system (1) for operating a vehicle (2). The vehicle has a predefined at least partially autonomous control mode (15) and is designed to provide an identification (13) indicating the predefined control mode to a vehicle-related component (7) that has information relevant for the predefined control mode and/or one or more control command(s) relevant for the predefined control mode. Tomake the information (11) and/or the control commands (12) available to the vehicle, the providing takes place only when the vehicle is in the predefined control mode.