Comment by rurban

Nonsense. These plans do exist for decades, and there already have been wide and successful field trials in Australia and Brazil.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3128286/ (2011 - Australia)

What Google is doing now is to try the same scheme in California, on a much smaller scale, but with the hopeful option to go wide. The target is South-East Asia and Africa.