When there was a regular highway with two lanes (one going one way, the other going the other way), I thought that you could drive on either lane, instead of always driving on the right-hand side. I was amazed that there were so few accidents.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I always thought that freak accidents where accidents that only involved freaks.— Prologic-H-73395
- I used to believe, driving in front of all the other cars on the highway, Knight Rider was leading the pack.— Michael Kolassa
- I used to think that the Eagle's song "Life in the Fast Lane" was actually "Pike in the Bass Lane."— Quilla
- when the sign on the highway said do not pass and dad did i thought he would be in great dangerAnon
- i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- When I was a kid I used to think the "carpool lane" was an actual pool cars went swimming in— skeez