When I was about 6 or 7 my brother was about 16 at the time, and just got his "automatic" car, and I always thought that automatic cars drove themself..
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I thought an Automatic car drove itself, like Herbie in the Disney films— Stano
- My brother used to think that the brushes at automatic car washes were Sulley from Monsters Inc. — RJ
- I used to think that the automatic tolets were controled by people who were looking at you through a camara. — jack irons
- I used to belive that the turn signals in a car were automatic & they told you where to go!— Lauren
- I used to believe that Automatic Toll Boths had underground room where people counted your money.— Dillon
- When I was little I used to believe that cars drove themselves.Anon