When I was about six, my mother told me that my grandparents had bought a car that was "automatic". I thought that meant the car could drive itself. I wondered how the car knew where you wanted to go.
Well my grandparents came to pick us up to take us somewhere in their new "automatic" car. After we were all seated, Grandpa got into the driver's seat and proceeded to drive as I had always seen him drive. Or so I thought. I had no idea that there were two kinds of transmissions. I didn't even know what a transmission was.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that My grandparents didn't have any other name except grandma and grandpa.— Emelia
- I thought the no overtaking sign meant that red cars cannot drive by black cars.— Helen
- I used to believe that the "cruise control" button in cars meant that the car could drive/maneauver itself.— Myriam
- I thought you were supposed to drive down the center of the road.— Cassiopeia
- I thought that cruise control was like autopilot i.e the car would just drive itself if you turned it on— Yqatuba
- For some reason I thought any 4X4 vehicle would pull a wheelie when switched into 2 wheel drive.— Richard Davies