A method for operating a motor vehicle (1), comprising the steps of: – ascertaining at least one path data record describing a respective travelled trajectory (9, 10) of the or a respective further motor vehicle (1), and sending the path data record to a vehicle-external memory device (26), – providing at least one guidance data record for the motor vehicle (1) from the memory device (26), each guidance data record being associated with one of the trajectories (9, 10) and being ascertained on the basis of the path data record describing the respective associated trajectory (9, 10), and – actuating the vehicle device (6, 7, 8) of the motor vehicle (1) on the basis of the provided guidance data record, or, if multiple instances of the guidance data records are provided by the memory device (26), an instance of the provided guidance data records that is selected in the vehicle, to output a driving instruction relating to the associated trajectory (9, 10) to a driver of the motor vehicle (1) and/or to perform at least one driving intervention.