Until I was about 12 or 13, I used to think that traffic jams were caused by a really slow driver at the end of the road/motorway.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "the motorway" was one big long road that went absolutely anywhere in the world!!!Anon
- I used to belive that there was a god living in every traffic light, controlling the traffic!— Sukhi
- I always used to think that Ozzy Osbourne was a racing driver!
Anon - I used to believe that a "ghost-driver" was a car driving with a white sheet over it.— Nynke
- i used to think mashed potatos were made from apples becouse they were the same color(i was a very slow child)— apples and ornges
- My mom used to tell me that ice cream caused polio.Anon