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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The interior of vehicles
back seat
brake
brake pedal
dashboard
demister
dickey
dimmer switch
dip switch
footbrake
gas pedal
horn
inertia reel
luggage rack
safety belt
slam on the brakes
speedometer
steering column
stick shift
trim
visor

Examples from literature

Don’t forget the fifth wheel – the steering wheel. 
If you turn the steering wheel, the car will go right or left. 
When the steering wheel is turned, the car uses a computer and motors to turn the front wheels. 

steering wheel | American Dictionary

steering wheel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈstɪər·ɪŋ ˌhwil, ˌwil/
the wheel in a vehicle that the driver turns in order to make the vehicle go in a particular direction

Examples of steering wheel

steering wheel
Figure 5 shows an abstract driving situation with the driver looking through the vehicle windscreen and the virtual steeringwheel in front of him/her.
The open loop system consists of the human driver and the steeringwheel.
There are two markings on the steeringwheel.
They have launched a car that parks itself without the driver having to touch the steeringwheel.
Like a child turning a toy steeringwheel, my choices don't control anything.
Rather than using a one-handed grasp response as in other studies, the observers responded with a twohanded grasp action, like grasping a car steeringwheel.
For driver accessibility, we consider the length and angle of the operation bar and the normal direction of the steeringwheel.
This can produce undesirable maneuvering and abrupt steeringwheel movement that must be smoothed.
The design includes several components such as driver seat, passenger seat, handrail, instrument panel, steeringwheel, foot board, and operation bar.
The operation bar and steeringwheel are actually separate par ts.
The angular position of the steeringwheel controls the lateral position of the car image on the generated roadway scene.
The steeringwheel tilt and height is adjusted to provide a comfortable interaction with the steeringwheel throughout the range of motion.
In the main therapy mode, subjects experience a resistance of the steeringwheel to movement by the unimpaired limb.
This work is focused to differential mobile robots (robots equipped with two parallel driving wheels and no steeringwheel).
In this case the user is directly transferring energy through the interface by turning the steering wheel, changing gears and possibly operating the accelerator and brake pedals.
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