A childhood belief about cars

I was just a little kid when my parents bought their first new car and it had cruise control. My mom took the car out the highway one day and told me to watch as she set the car in cruise control. I watched and saw the pedal move by itself and at the same time she took her hands off the steering wheel for a secord or two. That was all I needed to believe that cruise control was the setting that made the car drive itself like the cars I'd seen in tv shows. Although I could never really understand how it worked I secretly believed it to be true. It wasn't until I was 15 yrs old and saw my boyfriend drive with cruise control that it suddenly became clear to me! Gosh, I was gullible back then!