I always thought that the cruise control actually DROVE the car for you. Steering and all! I always wondered why my parents were "pretending to drive" even when they put the cruise on.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I thought that cruise control was like autopilot i.e the car would just drive itself if you turned it on— Yqatuba
- I used to believe that the "cruise control" button in cars meant that the car could drive/maneauver itself.— Myriam
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- I used to believe that self drive cars actually drove themselves!Anon
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- i thought 'locus of control" was spelled as "locust of control".. like the bugAnon