plastic thing by steering column

[yoscirocco at hotmail.com (daniel savatteri)]

Is the purpose of that small plastic thing to the left of the column to fall 
under the brake pedal? I scared the crap out of some people on the highway 
today after ripping an e-brake.  What were the vw engineers thinking when 
they put this usless piece of plastic there?

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