When I was younger I always thought that all the cars on the left side of the road all had white lights only and all the cars on the right had red lights only. I was soo confused when I found out that our car had white lights too!

Lucy

When I was about 5 or 6 my dad told me that late at night when everyone was asleep all of the cars that were parked outside started up by themselves and hung out together. I would try to stay awake to see it, but he told me that they would know if I was awake or not and if I was they wouldn't hang out together.

Jill

Whenever we'd go on a long car ride at night it would confuse me as to why all the cars going in the same direction as us had red lights, and the ones going the opposite direction had white lights. I spent a long time trying to figure out why... then I decided that you must have to drive on a different road depending on what color lights your car has.

sandra

When I was little, I was very naive to things such as cars and stuff like that so, one day as me and my mom were driving, I noticed that there was a peddle that my mom never used and asked her what it was, she, the funny woman she is thought that it would be funny to tell me that it was a 3rd gas peddle and that when she got the car up to top speed, she would push that peddle in and the car would go faster, I'm sorry to say that I found out the truth when I was 23 and my husband had to inform me that it was not a 3rd gas peddle, but the cluch, I still feel stupid!

silly skittles

I used to clench my teeth as we passed driveways, intersections, etc because I thought doing so would help us safely arrive at our destination.

A Wild Cowgirl

When I was little, I always thought that the turn signals actually turned the car. Of course, that didn't explain what the steering wheel was for. I came to the conclusion that the steering wheel was manual and the turn sighals were automatic: A driver turning a steering wheel could handle all the little bends and turns in the road just fine, but actually rounding a corner was beyond the strength of mere mortals, and so mechanical aid was needed. If you know absolutely nothing about cars except from what you glean by watching your parents driving, this explanation makes a lot of sense. I was older than I'd like to admit when I found out I was wrong...

romulus

I used to believe there were migets inside toll booths who would count the change thrown in and then flick a switchwhich would raise the gate. I was always impressed at how quickly they could count.

Jojopet

When I was REALLY young (I can't even remember how old I was). I used to believe that whenever you get into a car. The car wasn't moving, but the whole world around you was actually rearranging around your vehicle.

However, I never actually wondered how other vehicles moved around...

Somethingevil

I used to believe...that airbags we literally bags of air that came out in car crashes so that if the drivers were in a crushed/mangeled car, they could still breather (with the air from the bags.) Made sense at the time.

Chinchin

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

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

My dad told me that when he pressed a button his truck would fly. So i thought that the overdrive button meant the truck would go over things and i never touched that button.

Caroline

I remember my best friend and I used to always hold our breath going over the bridge that's over the river close to our home, in case we fell in. I'm not sure if we really believed it or not, but I remember doing it every time.

DeanDean

When I was 2 or 3 i used to think if I clicked the seatbelt button on the righthand side of my mom's car i would cause the car to blowup!

N/A

Me, my friend, and her 4-year-old brother were waiting in a car and her brother was being really loud. I showed him the eject button on the car's stereo and told him that I will press it and he will fly out of the car if he did not stop yelling. It worked... muahahaaa

Anon

I believed that when driving on the highway.....everyone driving in the direction we were going to get somewhere else was also going somewhere else, and everyone going in the opposite direction was going home.

Anon

i used to believe the turning signals on cars helped them turn sharp corners.

Julia

My sister used to believe that when you rolled the window down in the car, it literally 'rolled' up into a tube.

kal

When I was little I used to believe that the reason seat belts in cars would cut out suddenly when you pulled them too quickly was so that when a robber tried to steal your car, it would slow them down when they were trying frantically to put their seat belt on and drive away!

Anon

You know those warnings on the side mirrors that say "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear"? Well as a child I didn't really understand how to tell the difference between "than" and "then" and I thought the word "closer" meant that something was invisible. So, in my mind, those signs were saying that the objects were invisible and then suddenly they appeared. I always tried to catch the mirror when everything was invisible. I never quite did.

Rachel