I used to think that the actual lanes on the motorway (freeway) made the cars go faster - like the inside lanes had some mechanism to tell the car to go faster than the outside lanes.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that there was special metal laid in the motorways that made the cars go faster!!— angela
- i used to think that the faster you go in your car, the faster the car radio went.— Matt
- i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- I use to beleive that Motorways had special tarmac on the road that made the wheels go faster— Nada
- We used to think that if you ran swinging your arms around, you would run faster. — Christine
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.