When I was little, around five years old, I believed that all traffic lights had cameras on them, and that people watched the cameras to decide exactly when to turn the light yellow to avoid car accidents.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- I used to believe that my mom had surveillance cameras everywhere I went and could always see what I was doing— Mikhail