cars

I thought the signs and ads offering cash for cars and PU's meant they would buy used cars and really really bad used cars "peeeyeuuu". They meant Pick-ups.

Len

I used to believe that our car could drive itself. While driving, my father would make wild claims about the cars abilities which I was too young to doubt. Illogically, one way he would prove the cars intelligance was by claiming he knew when the light would change, that he in fact could change the stop light from red to green. After he did a long drawn out abracadabbra, the light would change, just like he said it would. Again, I was too young to know he could see the other lanes light as well as guess the change by timing his voice. Lead to having some wild dreams about being in the car alone and driven by a out of control car.

Rene' Joseph

My parents told me that the cats' eyes in hte middle of the road were lit up by a man with a torch running along underground in front of the car.

Tony

When I was four or five, the theme song to Chevrolet advertisements went "the heartbeat of America is today's Chevrolet". Because of this, I thought that Chevrolet made a different kind of car ever day, for instance, they might make Impalas on Monday, Citations on Tuesday, etc.

Jim

When my dad was driving along a road and beeped the horn on the car for no apparent reason, he used to tell me he did it because there was a fly on the road and he didn't want to run it over! I must have been about 8 before I realised he was taking the p**s..!

Paul H

I used to believe that when my parents and i were driving home at night the moon would follow us to make sure we got home safely,

melissa

if a car's door was open then it could take flight. i had all of my hotwheels with there doors open so that they could fly. i saw the whole thing on a cartoon. and cartoons never lie to you, do they?!
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cars will fly with there doors open one day!?

bob the pinecreek

i used to think the pedestrians were people who had a job to pull a lever that would make the earth move instead of the car being the one to move.

Anonymous Angel

I used to have a sports coupe with a pretty nice stereo system installed. There were small controls on the steering wheel that controlled the most common functions of the stereo, such as switching between the CD and the radio, changing CD tracks or channels, volume control, etc.. These controls allowed the driver to operate the stereo without taking his/her eyes off of the road.

I'm a computer programmer, and I duped my sister and two of her friends into thinking that I had reprogrammed the stereo into responding to my voice commands. I'd say something like "volume down" and then turn the stereo down using the steering wheel controls. When it wouldn't respond to their commands, I simply told them that the system only recognized my voice.

Imagine my sister's surprise when she got her driver's licence and borrowed my car...

Skating Zebra

i used to think that the cruise control on a car was actually consisting of two little computerized eyes in the front end of the car which directed the car to stay on the road and controlled its speed as well.

AbbEy*

I didn't understand the concept of a radio - I thought every car was made playing a certain kind of music. My grandparents listen to classical and, after they got a new car, I remember saying "It's a good thing this car plays the kind of music you like!" 

Teri 

We had a Station Wagon with an automatic back window. There was a small lever near the steering wheel that operated it. My mom had me convinced that if I pushed the button the car would fly. I was too terrified to ever touch the button.

Diamond girl

When I was about seven, I saw a person turn left while they had their right-turn signal on.
I thought that's how it worked for a long time!

marshmallowgodzilla

...that the correct way to drive a car on a highway was to straddle the center yellow lines (my visual perspective from the passenger side of my Dad's Buick) Fortunately it would be many years before I would be old enough to get a driver's liscense.

Stace

I used to think that the "wind chill factor" was the "windshield factor" that was somehow derived by measuring the temperature of the windshield when a car was going really fast.

spazgirl