By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc above Wednesday will unveil its newest Volvo self-driving bus at Washington though it plant ought eventually deploy vehicles without drivers beneath some limited conditions.

Uber said the new produce XC90 will exist assembled by Volvo Cars at Sweden and gorge human controls similar steering wheels and brake pedals, besides added it has factory-installed steering and braking systems designed though computer fairly than human control.

Previously, Uber had purchased around 250 Volvo XC90 SUVs and retrofitted them though self-driving use.

The new vehicles - known by the internal regulation amount 519G and beneath development though few years - are safer, more reliable and will "soon" replace the older vehicles at Uber's fleet, said Eric Meyhofer, the head of Uber's Advanced Technologies Group.

"This is around going ought production," said Meyhofer at an interview can an Uber parliament at Washington Tuesday.

The new vehicle too has few back-up systems though both steering and braking functions too though battery back-up force and new cybersecurity systems.

Uber is no ready ought deploy vehicles without human controls, Meyhofer said.

"We're however at a genuine hybrid state," Meyhofer said. "We gorge ought benefit there and we're no going ought benefit ought thousands of cars at a city overnight. It's going ought exist a slower introduction."

The new XC90 vehicles gorge an internal fish-eye camera ought examine though lost items, Uber said. They too carry out no gorge sunroofs because the self-driving vehicles gorge big sensors above the roof and are equipped with auto-close doors ought hinder an unsafe departure.

Uber, which has taken delivery of around a dozen prototypes of the new vehicle besides has no silent deployed them above public roads, said the car's "self-driving system will one appointment allow though safe, reliable autonomous ridesharing without the need" though a safety driver.

Asked if Uber will deploy self-driving cars without safety drivers at limited areas at the next little years, Meyhofer said "yes - method ago that." besides he added that Uber wants ought exist at "the good graces of public certainty and regulatory trust" ago making the affair resolution ought deploy.

In December, Uber resumed limited self-driving bus testing above public roads at Pittsburgh, nine months after it suspended the program following a fatal accident at Arizona.

In March 2018, authorities at Arizona suspended Uber's capacity ought examination its self-driving cars after one of its XC90 cars overcome and killed a female crossing the path can evening at the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Uber's largest testing hub. The crash was the first death attributed ought a self-driving vehicle.

In March 2019, prosecutors at Arizona said the corporation was no criminally likely at the self-driving crash and used to no chase charges. Uber ended testing at Arizona besides plans ought eventually bear testing at Toronto and San Francisco, Meyhofer said.

The death prompted important safety concerns around the nascent self-driving bus industry, which is racing ought benefit vehicles into commercial use.

Volvo Cars head Executive Hakan Samuelsson said at a statement that "by the center of the next decade we wish one-third of sum cars we sell ought exist fully autonomous".

Volvo Cars, which is owned by China's Geely bus Holdings Ltd, will apply a parallel autonomous foundation vehicle sentiment though the introduction of its first commercially available autonomous motivate technique at the early 2020s.

Volvo and Uber said at 2017 that the rideshare corporation planned ought buy up ought 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo from 2019 ought 2021 using the self-driving system developed by Uber's Advanced Technologies Group. An Uber spokeswoman said Tuesday that the corporation plans "to trade with Volvo above tens of thousands of vehicles at the future."

Other companies are too working ought deploy self-driving vehicles at limited areas.

General Motors Co at January 2018 sought permission from U.S. regulators ought deploy a ride-sharing fleet of driverless cars without steering wheels or other human controls ago the goal of 2019 besides is however struggling ought benefit regulatory approval. mind Inc's Waymo unit is operating a robotaxi service at Arizona and said persist month it is partnering with Lyft Inc ought serve more riders. (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Christopher Cushing)