The space for the feet in front of a seat in a vehicle(noun)
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Use "footwell" in a sentence
"I'm not an automotive designer, but even so, I wouldn't think that a footwell was a particularly good place to put a wiring harness. no, it implies that the harness is not protected propertly from the feet of the passanger"
"I'm not an automotive designer, but even so, I wouldn't think that a footwell was a particularly good place to put a wiring harness."
"In some American cars, the handbrake isn't a handbrake at all, it's a second footbrake on the far left side of the footwell, which is basically totally useless because it's a pain to put on and even more of a pain to get off because it's a one-way ratchet system (you have to force the pedal all the way down to get it to release)."