Victoria will trial futuristic driverless cars on high-speed rural roads.

If the tests are a success, it's anticipated driverless cars could travel on specially zoned freeways in as little as three years.

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Bosch Australia will begin trials of its Tesla-built autonomous vehicle on the Mornington Peninsula in November, followed by Ballarat later this year.

Authorities believe the new technology could help cut the road toll by removing human error, which is a factor in 90 per cent of crashes.

Engineers hope the trials will teach automated cars how to respond to a number of uniquely Australian problems, like kangaroos.

"Australia is really unique in the fact that we have kangaroos jumping across our roads," futurist Chris Riddell told Sunrise.

"Scientists say they 'float', which makes it hard for autonomous software to detect them."

"At the moment these self-driving cars are very independent. In order to get to the next stage, they need to be able to talk to each other and to things like traffic lights and bollards.

"That is expected to be heralded in with the new 5G technology we've been hearing about."

Autonomous vehicles are already popular overseas, with 400 driverless taxis on San Francisco roads and a number of buses in main Asian centres.

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