If it was on the top of the car, the node would have to be constantly updated automatically. But GPS is no where near that accurate. I guess you could use a combination involving LIDAR to constantly tell the node where it is so the car's position is updated in Grassland.
But it would make more computational/economic sense for the government and economically self-interested citizens (interested in mining Grassland's coin) to line the streets with ip cameras which grassland nodes can read from to analyze and broadcast car and pedestrian locations/speed etc. etc. millisecond by millisecond. Which self driving cars could pick up and 'know' everything going on around them even things they can't 'see' themselves.