When I was in the car with my mother when I was a child, she would occasionally say "oh, we're out of gas," and then would drive to the gas station. I thought that when the car ran out of gas, it would only allow you to drive to the gas station, but nowhere else, or even that it would drive there automatically.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- 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
- Only old men can drive BMW'sAnon
- I used to think that it was against the law to drive a car without shoes on. It isn't— Pamela
- For some reason I thought any 4X4 vehicle would pull a wheelie when switched into 2 wheel drive.— Richard Davies
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki