Method for assisting a user of a vehicle during an automated lateral guidance of the vehicle on a road with a branch, computing device and driver assistance system

A method for assisting a user of a vehicle during an automated lateral guidance of the vehicle on a road having multiple lanes includes determining map-based position data describing a current position of the vehicle in relation to the lanes on the basis of satellite-based position data and high-resolution map data, receiving sensor data from at least one environment sensor of the vehicle describing boundaries of the lanes, detecting a branch of the road on the basis of the map-based position data and/or the sensor data, wherein at least one of the lanes branches off from the remaining lanes at the branch, and actuating an output device for outputting a takeover request to the user as a function of a position of the lane with the highest stay probability relative to the at least one branching lane.