Until I was 8 or so I thought that turning the steering wheel left and right actually powered the motion of the car.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that drivers accelerated by turning the steering wheel.Anon
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- I once thought that there were little mice under the wheel on Wheel of Fortune making the wheel move— Kara
- I used to believe that you could not make the car turn left or right without turning the blinker on.— Christy Shane
- I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that blinking your eyes powered your speech.Anon
- I used to think that cars were powered by a jet of air which came out of the exhaust.— BadDeal