I was always too short to properly see out the windows of the car, and wasn't allowed to sit in the front, so I never saw out that way either. Now, have you ever seen a movie that shows a person driving down a perfectly straight stretch of road while turning the steering wheel madly back and forth? These two things in combination led me to believe, for a while, that whatever let the wheels of the car turn wasn't really connected to anything. They just sort of floated around by themselves, and you had to turn the wheel in order to keep them pointing in a straight line so the car would stay on the road.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- I used to think that drivers accelerated by turning the steering wheel.Anon
- I once thought that there were little mice under the wheel on Wheel of Fortune making the wheel move— Kara
- I use to beleive that Motorways had special tarmac on the road that made the wheels go faster— Nada
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- I used to see "End Road Work" signs, and thought they were a sort of protest.— Sebastian