I used to think that people who were speeding past a speed camera would have to cover their faces with their hands so the speed camera would not recognise them.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I thought that if you were speeding and hit a speed bump, it would cause your car to fly into the air.— SeñorChaCha
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- When my wife was a kid, she used to think that highway speed bumps were for the blind.Anon
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon