When I was very young my father would turn on the cruise control on certain road trips. He would then show me that he did not have his foot on the gas. He would tell me that there was a giant magnet in the road pulling alon the cars.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the "cruise control" button in cars meant that the car could drive/maneauver itself.— Myriam
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I thought that cruise control was like autopilot i.e the car would just drive itself if you turned it on— Yqatuba
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon