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.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- i used to think technology was "flying cars" and that we would have them by the year 2000.— josieg
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- I used to believe that it wasn't wind that made the tops of trees move.. It was dinosaurs.— H
- I used to believe that aliens would come and take me if I wasn't good to my parents— somebody
- I thought the no overtaking sign meant that red cars cannot drive by black cars.— Helen
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon