When I was a little kid, I used that think that cars bent when they turned.

Anon

When I was a kid my dad always told me that the button to reset the trip odometer in the car was actually a button that would fire missiles at the car ahead of you, removing it from your path. He never let me touch it.

Corbin

my mother and father used to have a Pontiac Grand Am that had the paint peeling off of it. they always commenter that the car had leprocy, obviously i thought that leprocy was when that paint peeled off of your car. in the third grade my teacher asked what leprocy was. i raised my hand and proudly gave my answer (thinking i was a genius). i then learned that i really wasnt.

timmy

I used to wonder why cars were designed with stuff still 'to do' when you drove them - like gears and stuff. I had always thought you should simply get in, press start and just steer...

anna

I used to believe that the semi-trucks that transport livestock, actually were used to collect wind throuhg the slats on the side. The driver drove around, collected the wind in the trucks, then released it at lakes or the ocean. This was the conclusion I came up with when I learned sailboats used wind to move. I figured you had to have a way to guarentee there would be wind to move the sailboat. The first time I actually saw cows in a livestock truck was really sad and confusing. My mom had no idea how I had come up with the idea.

Ren

When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.

Mina Tova

When my father was driving my mother and me in our car he would frequently take off his glasses and hand them to my mother and ask her to clean them. This terrified me. I thought that when you wore glasses you were literally blind when you took them off.

John Adams

When I was small, I was convinced that if my father would let me open all four doors of the car while we were moving they would act like wings and the car would fly.

Sue

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.

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 

When I was small I wondered what force drove cars along.. I decided that it must be something like a jet plane or a hovercraft, so (obviously) the exhaust pipe was the driving force, with the exhaust "smoke" pushing the car along. Eventually, I realised that this wasn't the case because all the cars with one exhaust would only be able to round in circles..

I had used my awesome powers of deduction and prodigous knowledge of "science" to work it out - I seem to remember being absurdly proud of myself!

Chris Lovatt

When I was about five or six in the early 1950s I was sat in the back of the family's 1940s Hillman (UK make of car)and overheard my father talking about a new idea to UK motoring - The SELF DRIVE CAR!!!
The thought of being in one terrified me. Do we all sit in the back and have to go where the SELF DRIVE CAR wants takes us???

Mike C, Hull, UK

When I was younger, I used to believe that the beams of light from streetlights used to pull the car along, I never could work out how the car moved during the day when the lights weren't on!

Anon

When I was about seven I used to believe that where the roads are now, there was a really deep hole and they had to build the roads over it. In fact, it was so deep, that anyone who fell in it would never be able to climb out. I remember driving in the car with my parents when they commented that the new road had a lot of cracks in it. I immediately started crying, believing that the road was going to cave in and we would all have to live underground for the rest of our lives.

Nina

When I was little, and in the car with my dad, and he pushed the button for the cigarette lighter.... I always thought there was a dragon in it. So that when you pushed the button to start heating it up... there was a stick that poked the dragon, and he got mad a breathed fire on the lighter .. and voila, it was ready! I think I may have watched too much "Flintstone's" cartoons at that age... haha.

Brandy

i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.

erin

I used to think that the the numbers on the odomometer of a car indicated how many miles the car had left. I thought it ran backwards in number and that when it reached zero, the car would not run any longer.

Emily P.

I once asked my mother if a car could move with no driver inside. She replied that technically, this could happen, but that it wasn't likely. Nevertheless, I spent a good year or two searching for driverless cars whenever we were on the road.

Amy

When I was pretty little, I liked to stick my head out of the car window as we were driving. My dad told me that if I stuck my head out there as we were driving to close to something my head would of course be chopped off. Now, I never sat behind my dad, because he always had his seat pushed back so far it was really uncomfortable. Therefore it never occurred to me that he could be talking about other cars. There was never anything on the outside side of the car but trees, and it didn't seem like a tree branch could really cut your head off, it just wasn't sharp enough. I concluded that there must be a certain kind of tree that had razor-sharp branches specifiacally designed to defend it from little kids hanging out of car windows.

Cohort

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