When I was a kid I thought that the handbrake would stop the car dead in it's tracks no matter what, and whenever I saw a car skid into something on TV I'd say "He shoulda used the emergency brake..."

Anon

I thought the reason only adults could drive was that their legs had to be long enough to reach down through the floor of the car to the ground, like in the Flintstones.

Lyssa

I thought small cars grew up to become big cars

carhugger

When I was too short to see out the drivers side of the window to see cars on the opposite side of the road (I could only just see their roofs through the front widescreen), I believed that there was only one lane on every road when we were driving and that cars could magically squeeze past each other by becoming thin for a moment.

NZ Leesa

This isn't actually my belief, but I got someone else to believe that the little bumps that are on the buttons on the steering wheel are brail for blind people to use.

Nikki

When I was little I used to think that cruise control meant that you didn't have to steer or push the gas. The car just drove on it's own!!

mommy04

I used to believe that when you drove past other cars at night, you had to count them with a number ticker thing - that was the only explanation I had for the clicking noise our car made when we passed an oncoming car. The noise was of course my father dimming his headlights so that he wouldn't blind other drivers.

Tiffany

When I Was little, I believed that everyone who had vans without windows were kidnappers!!! KI even told my parents that, and I didnt realize why they laughed at me. Years later, they still tell my husband!

Cali_Love

Until I was about 12 or 13, I used to think that traffic jams were caused by a really slow driver at the end of the road/motorway.

Chengster

From the time I was about 2-5, I didn't realize there were 2 lanes on the streets. Whenever we got in the car, since of course I was short and could only see through the windsheild, I was always scared that we would run head-on into another car. I finally had the bright idea to ask "How come we never hit any of the other cars?" and when I got the answer.. wow. Adults are smart!!

Kat

When I was 12 on our way to Myrtle beach, South Carolina (our yearly vacation) my grandparents told me about something called the "flight mode". They said that all cars had it, and whenever you needed to get somewhere in an emergency you could turn on the flight mode switch and your vehicle would automatically grow wings. This way you could get to where you needed to be, fast. But it was only good for one time, and after that your car was basically useless. I believed this until I was 13 O.o

xPiebaldDoex

I used to believe that whenever I went to sleep in the car it would go super fast because when I woke up we would be where we were going

The dude

When I was about 6, my brother once told me that, if he were to press the button you use to take your seatbelt off, the car would start driving at an enormous speed.

For four years, I was terrified of sitting in a car with him, because he threatened to make us crash into a wall.

Jessie

I used to live at the top of a very steep hill, and when we drove up it in the car i used to believe that pushing on the back of the seat in front would help the car get up the hill!

Anna

i used to believe that to drive a car, the steering wheel had to be turned back and forth constantly as they do in cartoons. it never dawned on me to observe the way real people drive.

karyn