The invention provides a real-time lane line detection method. According to the real-time lane line detection method, an interested area is determined through the position of a current frame vanishing point, and an upper half image where no lane lines exist is removed, and therefore, the processing time of each frame of image can be decreased; edge point scanning is performed at two directions from inside to outside of the interested area, and what is detected every time is the inner side of a lane line which is most adjacent to vehicles on a lane, and except for the interference of other edge points, jigger will not be generated because of the width of the lane line, and since an image is divided into two half parts of detection lane lines from the position of the vanishing point, a situation that two detected straight lines are located at one side of the vanishing point when the entire image is detected can be avoided, and thus, the accuracy of the detection can be improved; and further, when Hough transform lane line detection is performed, only straight lines in a range of straight lines which can form a certain included angle with a horizontal line are selected, and therefore, the accuracy of the detection can be improved, and time for calculating Hough weight of straight lines that are not in the range of the straight lines can be saved. With the real-time lane line detection method of the invention adopted, lane line detection at highways and rural areas where roads are in good condition can be realized rapidly, accurately and stably.