When driving in a car my parents always honked the horn when we went through a tunnel, but I couldn't see that they were the ones honking. So up until I was about 6 or 7 I thought that tunnels honked when you drove through them.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe my dad could honk the car horn by pushing on a mysterious spot on the roof of the car.— sarah b
- I used to believe that fax machines worked by sending papers down underground tunnels. Anon
- That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.— Christophe Chang
- I used to believe that the Lehigh tunnel in Pennsylvania was created by Superman.— Holz
- I used to think underground trains actually descended into the tunnel, like a rollercoaster.— Natasha
- I would think that every car that either my mom or dad wasnt driving a ghost was drivingAnon