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The massive adoption of the blockchain-based distributed framework has made it possible to store and transmit Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) application data transparently, securely, and without a central control point of trust. Introducing an efficient and scalable consensus mechanism, which is one of the most crucial components in the blockchain-based VANET application, is still an open research challenge, given the features related to high mobility vehicular network and resource constraint devices in vehicles. Considering the efficiency, fairness and scalability issues of state-of-the-art consensus protocols like Proof of Work (PoW), Proof of Stake (PoS) and Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant (PBFT), in this paper we propose a new technique called Proof of Driving (PoD), to randomize the selection of honest miners for generating the blocks efficiently for blockchain-based VANET applications. Additionally, we …