I used to believe that ghost drivers, were cars droven by actual ghosts or by itself, just as in the cartoons. I never really thought of the name until recently when it was in the news.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I used to think the "carpool lane" was an actual pool cars went swimming in— skeez
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I thought the no overtaking sign meant that red cars cannot drive by black cars.— Helen
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- i thought it was a law that bus drivers had to wave to each other when they passed— ande
- I thought small cars grew up to become big cars— carhugger