Before my sister-in-law got her license, she was taking a trip with her parents. Her father said that he was getting tired and my sister-in-law told him to put the car on cruise control and lay back and take a nap! She thought that the car would control itself and take you where you need to go!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I thought that cruise control was like autopilot i.e the car would just drive itself if you turned it on— Yqatuba
- I used to believe that the "cruise control" button in cars meant that the car could drive/maneauver itself.— Myriam
- i thought 'locus of control" was spelled as "locust of control".. like the bugAnon
- I used to believe that the remote control could control all the things in my house, including my dog.— Felipe
- When my sister's father went to Seattle, my sister said "Is Attle nice?" She thought Attle was a person's name— zzo38
- I used to believe that I could control the wind.Anon