Summary From the last decade, every developing nations are focusing on the smart cities. Smart city will provide all necessary services, ie, water management, waste management, traffic management, and health services, to its citizens effectively. A new paradigm in the smart vehicles is able to form a network called vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). There is a wireless enabled roadside unit (RSU) through which the vehicle drivers can effectively exchange the important traffic data and take proper driving decisions. Each roadside unit is capable of managing some vehicles, which can form a group. There are many schemes available for data transmission in VANET group but they are less secured. In this paper, we propose an intelligent conditional privacy preserving scheme for vehicular ad hoc networks using elliptic curve cryptography. The security analysis showed that the proposed scheme is intelligent, efficient, and easily deployable.