transport: cars

When i was little my dad told me little blue people worked inside of peoples cars. and that is how they worked. i believed it up until i saw the inside of a car.

i used to believe that air bags were huge inflatable bags of air that would blow up around you if you thought something would be dangerous on the road, and if you were too small you would suffocate!

When you're driving on the highway there is this part of the road on the very side that if you drive over it it makes a loud noise to tell the driver that they went over too far. My dad told me it was so that when truckers (or people who'd been driving for a long time) fell asleep It'd make them wake up and start driving again. I thought this until I was 11.

When I was young, I thought that if you put the hazard lights on while the car was moving, it would explode. I'm still not entirely sure where I picked this up.

When i was little, my gramma would tell me about how cars used to have to be plugged in in order to work. I was always thinking that they had a special car outlet, and then i was thinking that the car wouldnt be able to get very far being plugged into a wall..not even with an extension cord.

When I was little (And I still am), around 14 (Im 15 now).. So, not even a year ago, my mother and I were on our way to Tim Hortens.. My sister was there with us, she's only a year younger than me..
My mom had just baught her new car and said it was great because there wasn't alot of kilometers..
I was like "But dont you WANT kilometers?"
My sister looked at me and was like "No, wtf!"
Then I go "But if you run out of kilometers, how would you get anywhere?"
I use to think that kilometers meant how far you could go.

My mom thought this was SO funny, every new person she meets and asks her about her new car, she mentions my story to them! How embarassing on my part!

My parents and I often went on little road trips when I was younger and I didn't fully understand how cars worked. For some odd reason I believed that the roads were like giant conveyor belts and the cars just sat on them. The cars that passed us were just on faster belts. I have no clue why I thought that...

When driving along, my Nana asked my dad what the yellow rumble strips (those lines on the road before roundabouts) are for. My dad made a joke about them being for blind drivers. Of course no one in the car took what he was saying seriously.... except the innocent little child in the back of the car (me). It was a couple of years before I sat up in bed in the middle of the night thinking "there can't be blind drivers! How would they see the roadsigns?"

I used to think that petrol was the car's food so the car would grow bigger and go faster..

I used to believe…

we'll soon be there

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...

When I was little, my grandparents had a car that my Grandmother would refer to as "the jalopy". I thought that a jalopy was a car company, like Ford or Chevy. Then one time when my parents were looking for a new car, I told them that we should get a Jalopy. They just looked at me funny.

ok when i was younger i use to belive that my dads work truck was a boy and my moms car was a girl and that they were madly in love... a beautiful romantic story lol

When I was just over 4 years old my Parents, two younger brothers (2yrs. & 5 mos.) and myself were on the way to visit family in California from New Mexico. Somewhere in Arizona the engine began knocking and making a lot of noise. Dad pulled to the side of the highway and raised the hood with smoke boiling out from the engine compartment. I overheard him explain to my mother that the engine was about to "blow up". My youngest brother (5 mos.) was still in the car asleep. I became hysterical and started screaming "Get the baby! Get the baby! I couldn't understand why my parents were being so nonchalant about the baby beng in the car when it was about to explode.

I used to think that a car's exhaust was what propelled it down the road (much like a jet engine). This was a sound theory for vehicles with dual exhaust, but i was always confused as to what cars with a single tail pipe did not veer to one side.

When I was a child I believed that the indicator for the temp. of the car was actually the temp. of the key. Based on the illustration of the thermometer I thought it was a key.