The invention discloses a driving state recognition method based on approximate entropy template matching, and the method comprises the steps: 1, sample library building, wherein samples of one type in the sample library are a plurality of steering wheel turning angle signals in a normal driving state, and samples of the other type in the sample library are a plurality of steering wheel turning angle signals in a dangerous driving state; 2, road information segmentation based on the approximate entropy template matching: carrying out the call of a signal correction module based on the approximate entropy template matching to correct the steering wheel turning angle signals in the library sample, wherein the correction process of any one steering wheel turning angle signal is as follows: carrying out the EMD (Empirical Mode Decomposition), the effectiveness recognition of an intrinsic mode function component, and signal reconstruction; 3, feature extraction; 4, two-class model building and training; 4, driving state information collection and synchronous classification. The method is simple in steps, is reasonable in design, is easy and convenient to implement, is good in use effect, can accurately recognize the driving state of a driver simply and conveniently, and is high in recognition precision.