When I was about 5 or 6, I believed that there was a paintbrush with yellow paint on it underneath our car that would paint the yellow dashes on the road on highways. I searched under our car many times when it was parked, but I never saw any paintbrush or a paint can. This probably came from the fact that I was always stuck in the back of the car on road trips.

Beamer

I used to believe that you were allowed to drive as fast as you wanted through tunnels. I still believe it was my dad who told me this, he refuses though...

Anon

I remember I was very little and we were driving in to a ferry with our car. The boat opened and it had big teeth! I was so scared and cried, I didn't want to be eaten by the boat.

Marie

everytime i went to Toys R Us i used to get worried because there was one of those height bars on the car park and i used to think, omg what happens when our car grows and we cant get in!

Lisa

I used to believe that the car would tip over going around corners. I was sure that all the passengers had to make sure they were evenly distributed in the car so that it would stay on the road!

Gull-able

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