Open source city-wide anonymous autonomous robust vehicle control mechanism

It's a common idea for autonomous vehicles to communicate constantly with a server to best function in traffic. If a server knows that 600 cars want to go from the same area A to the same area B it can tell all of them which roads to use, allocating more cars to faster and wider roads. This way all the cars reach their destinations as quickly and safely as possible. This real world traffic routing is highly analogous to information routing in networks.

A common objection to having a car that communicates constantly with a server is the potential for abuse and the ability to constantly track each person's car. It violates one's right to privacy.

I propose a method for cars to take advantage of city- wide traffic coordination without owners suffering loss of privacy. This protocol would flow as follows:

An autonomous vehicle is turned on and given a destination. At this point it generates a random IP6 network address. The car connects to the city's traffic network and sends its approximate size, desired maximum and minimum average speed to destination, desired top speed, and destination.

The city's traffic server uses traffic cameras and usage history to decide how many of the vehicles on the street are taking directions. Allocating for more or less variance in uncontrolled traffic it sends packets addressed to the car with directions. As the car travels it sends information on its location and desired course. Accidents and traffic jams can be avoided as well by communicating with randomly generated ID's as static ones.

Being open source the protocol can be used by a wide variety of software. By allowing any car to ask for directions at any time it can provide service regardless of underlying architecture.

It's robust against many forms of DOS attack because the server can tell when cars are actually present with actual traffic flows. If a car lies about its destination the most it can do is make the server plan an unnecessary route. If there are more requested routes than available roads (due to a known DOS attack) the server can still route cars as efficiently by over- allocating roads. It won't matter which cars are real and which are part of the DOS attack. If there are really too many cars for the roads allocation degrades gracefully.