I didn't understand the concept of a radio - I thought every car was made playing a certain kind of music. My grandparents listen to classical and, after they got a new car, I remember saying "It's a good thing this car plays the kind of music you like!" 

Teri 

We had a Station Wagon with an automatic back window. There was a small lever near the steering wheel that operated it. My mom had me convinced that if I pushed the button the car would fly. I was too terrified to ever touch the button.

Diamond girl

When I was about seven, I saw a person turn left while they had their right-turn signal on.
I thought that's how it worked for a long time!

marshmallowgodzilla

...that the correct way to drive a car on a highway was to straddle the center yellow lines (my visual perspective from the passenger side of my Dad's Buick) Fortunately it would be many years before I would be old enough to get a driver's liscense.

Stace

I used to think that the "wind chill factor" was the "windshield factor" that was somehow derived by measuring the temperature of the windshield when a car was going really fast.

spazgirl

When I would be in the car with my parents as a really young kid, and I heard them mention "high beams", I thought they were saying "high beans". I pictured yellow string-beans as part of the car headlights!

Lisa

I used to believe that cars were alive and their headlights were eyes.

Wiley

My mom would tell us kids to press our hands on the roof of the car as we passed under a bridge. This was to hold up the bridge so it would not fall on us as we passed under it.

love you Mom :)

PJ

My son saw a tow-truck dragging a car behind it. He said"What is wrong with the car?".I said" the battery is dead"
. He said'Who killed the battery?"

anon.

When I was very small, I used to have terrifying dreams about being stuck in a car in the middle of a large drawbridge as it opened. I still do on occasion, and I don't like traveling over large bridges of any kind (sometimes the dreams are about bridges that I know are not drawbridges in real life.) I sometimes wonder whether I am destined to die in a drawbridge accident.

JCS

That when my dad put fuel in the car you could only use petrol from the one petrol company and that if you used fuel from another company your car would break down. I thought the fuel from each company was different

Maree

I used to believe that when my parents drove to my grandparents house they could do something to make the trip long or short. I would always hope they would make it short. It took a while for me to realize that the "short" trips were short because I had fallen asleep.

Anon

This concerns the large pieces of rubber that come off the tires of semi tractors and trailers.
When my son was about five and we were driving on the freeway, I told him this was wild rubber that was run over while trying to cross the interstate at night. He believed that for a couple of more years before finding out the truth.

Mike

I used to believe that freeways (Highways) were giant conveyor belts, and when cars got onto one it would know where the driver was going, and would deposit the car at the exit nearest thier destination. I was a weird kid! :-P Still am weird!

Celia H.

When I was young and tried to sleep in the backseat of my parents car while driving down the highway, my parents would wait until I was dozing off and say excitedly to each other 'Look! Look at that herd of elephants! There must be 100 of them!" As dopey as I was even I knew that couldn't be [living in Canada] but they were persistant. I had to get up and look. They were twisted at times.

Craig H

When I was about 4 or 5, I believed that Cars didn't really move. But that the Earth rotated under them, and you had to time it just right to make your turns.

Jeff McCorkle