Wiktionary
n. 1 (context automotive English) a column originating in the dashboard and ending at the steering wheel 2 (context aviation English) a column ending in the flight yoke, whose manipulation allows for the control of pitch
Wikipedia
The automotive steering column is a device intended primarily for connecting the steering wheel to the steering mechanism or transferring the driver's input torque from the steering wheel.
Usage examples of "steering column".
My left foot was still on the wrong side of the steering column and, anyway, he was on my left or blind side.
Dvora threw a switch on the steering column and they started forward silently, with only the slightest hum coming from the wheels.
Loren said, pressing the ignition lever on the steering column and pushing the starter button.
The wound left by the steering column had begun to ache despite the local anesthetics.
Giordino obliged and climbed in the passenger's seat as Pitt pushed the gear lever on the Cotal gearbox, actually a switch on an arm that protruded from the steering column, into low gear, pressed the accelerator pedal, and eased out the clutch.
Well, Jean Daniel was dead now, of an unequal argument between his soft guts and the alloy core of a plastique-propelled steering column.
But he frowned at the unfamiliar dashboard, the confusing levers and knobs on the steering column, many more than he was used to.
He pushed harder on the door, getting his shoulder into it, and it wasn't until his legs came free of the steering column that he realized they had been hung up.
Breaching one arm against the steering column, the other on the handbrake, he let the shock roll through him.
He reached into the cab and spun the large wing nut securing the wheel to the steering column.
There was also no windscreen, and the steering column sported a wheel the size of a millstone that the driver peered over the top of.
One of the occupants, the driver - a lieutenant by his looks, and by the way he later died - had got himself skewered on his steering column.