When I was little I always had to know where we were going, my dad always used to say,"wherever the car takes us.." as a result, I used to believe the car had auto-pilot capabilites and that the way the car stopped at the red light was that a transparent shield came down and stopped the car softly...when the shield was gone the car would automatically continue it's journey.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- My friend's sister used to think the auto pilot on a plane was an inflatable man like the one in Airplane!— Richard Davies
- That the rivers stopped flowing at night!— Louise
- When I was little,I used to think the TV stopped when I went to bed. I figured it all faded to white.— Sharon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when we slept, we stopped breathing.Anon
- I used to believe that milk was what cows peed. Never stopped me from drinking it though!
— Reuben - I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.— Jamis