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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is UK. The UK has become the 1st country to announce the regulation of the use of self-driving vehicles at slow speeds on motorways.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first self-driving car was successfully piloted from Pittsburgh to San Diego in 1995, although it was not a standard production vehicle. The Navlab5, which was the fifth of ten cars that were retrofitted by The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, was an autonomous vehicle that was able to steer itself.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1977, the Japanese improved on this idea with a camera system that relayed data to a computer to process images of the road. This led to the testing of the world’s first self-driving passenger vehicle which could reach speeds up to 20 miles per hour.

Detailed explanation-4: -The UK has just become the first country to green light self-driving cars on motorways. The UK government on Wednesday became the first country to announce it will regulate the use of self-driving vehicles at slow speeds on motorways, with the first such cars possibly appearing on public roads as soon as this year.