TaxiDriver Reloaded 3.4.2 RC — Parked AI and Resilient Route Cache

This patch release addresses two player-reported failure modes after 3.4.1-rc: native AI remaining active after a route or cancelled order, and dispatcher generation becoming unavailable when map-provided semantic data fails.

AI completion and cancelled-order parking

• Final native Route Done now hands the vehicle to BeamNG's stop mode instead of merely leaving the previous AI route active.
• BeamNG completes the deceleration, applies the parking brake at its stationary threshold, restores the normal gearbox mode, and disables native AI.
• Entering dispatcher search is now a route-ending invariant. Passenger cancellation, no-show, passenger collision, an empty order pool, and other transitions back to search stop an active AI route before clearing the trip.
• The shared search transition also releases TaxiDriver's temporary pickup forced-stop input so a cancelled pickup cannot keep the next route permanently braked.
• Arrival processing retains a second parked handoff as a fallback when physical arrival is detected without a usable native completion callback.

UI-published dispatcher route cache

• Added routeCache.lua with a versioned, map-scoped JSON history under /settings/TaxiDriver/route_cache.
• Dispatcher search creates or migrates the current map file immediately.
• Every regular pool offer and floating next-order offer is appended in the same transition that publishes it to the UI.
• Cached records contain the complete route shown to the player: pickup, optional stops, destination, per-leg distances, order type, passenger/cargo properties, timing, and fare metadata.
• Cache files follow BeamNG's active user folder, including installations moved away from %LOCALAPPDATA%.
• Route histories are sanitized, endpoint-deduplicated, bounded to 96 records per map, and assigned fresh IDs when restored.
• If live generation fails, the dispatcher selects a compatible cached passenger or delivery route, prefers the requested subtype and diverse nearby pickups, refreshes pickup distance when routing is available, and publishes it through the normal UI path.
• Cached offers can still be accepted when live distance lookup is unavailable; the known route distance is retained without understating direct pickup distance.

Map-module fault isolation and routing fallback

• Bus-stop triggers, Sites files, parking spots, and POIs are enumerated through independent protected calls so one malformed community module cannot abort all order generation.
• BeamNG Route distance failures fall back to direct graph-path distance and emit at most one warning per level session.
• A semantic-independent in-memory road-edge sampler remains available for discovering new stops. Persistent JSON is reserved for complete offers that actually reached the UI.
• Invalid cached numbers, coordinates, malformed node identifiers, map IDs, schemas, and incomplete records are discarded instead of entering gameplay.

Validation and compatibility

• Passed the LuaJIT gameplay combinatorics suite, including dispatcher JSON creation, UI-offer persistence, route restoration, native parking commands, Fleet lifecycle, and 500 deferred respawns.
• Passed 357 responsive native/Connected Phone UI states across every supported locale and HiDPI rendering.
• Built and verified a deterministic 60-entry archive.
• Existing 3.4.1-rc settings, profile, progress, reviews, vehicle history, shift history, Fleet records, and LAN identity remain compatible.
• UI cache revision remains 341-rc; no browser-cached UI asset changed in this patch.

Package

• taxidriver.zip
• SHA-256: DA8D52857A1692BFB1BAC65F7C25B6862E17C7DEA379A4C918D8FC147B08079F