cars

My dad told me when I was a kid that if you don't dim the "high beams" when a car is coming towards you it will make them go blind. I remember thinking why do the car companies make things that send people blind. I'm sure I missed the temporarily bit to my dad's sentence.
To this day, I find it difficult to use high beams as I just might send someone blind.

Christy

I used to think that when you drove over a road where tar had just been put down, to fill a pothole or something, you were driving over ice cubes and that is what made the crunchy sound. I don't know how I thought ice cubes got on the road, or stayed there in the summer, but I thought that for a very long time!

Suzy

When i was young I always thought that the cheaper gas was the faster you ran out of gas.
I also thought that when you are filling up your vehicle if the amount of litres is far higher than the amout of dollars it meant your vehicle was good on gas.

Janine

I used to wonder what kind of car a PRNDL was. The stick shift on my dad's old Rambler read PRNDL, and it wasn't until I was older that I understood the markings to stand for Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive and Low.

Steve

When i was younger and travelling in a car and they flicked the indicator on I thought to myself how does the car know which way were goin and thought that it was some kind of sat nav

Anon

We didn't have a car when I was a child, hardly anyone did. When an Uncle took my Dad & I to Butlin's for our holidays, I saw a sign that said, 'Dual Carriageway Ahead'
After driving on for ages, I just couldn't understand why I had not seen this village called 'Dual Carriageway'!

John

when I was little I thought there were running mice holding magnets underneath the pavement that made the cars in the passing lane go faster

Suzy k.

When I was young I couldn't wrap my head around the concept of a car engine. So I always wondered how the driver of a car could be strong enough to pull everything that was in the car behind him!
I remember being especially puzzled when we moved houses and my dad was driving a moving van.

Anon

I used to believe that if you didn't wear your seatbelt when the car was driving, you would automatically be thrown through the windscreen

elizabeth

When I was little I didn't know that cars drove on different sides of the road, so I'd sit there at the side walk and wait for 2 cars to go by and wait for them to crash.

Sata

When I was four I thought that you put one gallon of gas in a car so when my mom was outraged that gas was up to $2 I told her to just buy half a gallon then it will only cost $1

Anon

When I was a kid I used to think that the car knew where to go after we all got in and my step dad sat behind the steering wheel.He said what do you think I'm sitting here for? I shrugged my shoulders and then said..I dunno?? maybe just holding onto it for whatever reason???

oreotheorca

I always thought that people slowed down when passing car accidents because the accidents reminded them of their own mortality or led them to believe that it was a particularly dangerous patch of road, to be driven cautiously.

Jesse

I used to think that 'Child Locking' only worked on children and that older people could still open the door.

Anonymous Whistleblower

In Italian the word for “steering wheel” is very similar to the word for “fly”, so I used to think that the steering wheel was a button you could push to make your car fly. I was seriously disappointed because my parents didn’t use it!

Greta

I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.

Joe

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

My dad told me and my siblings to scrunch together in the back seat of his truck whenever we'd pull out of our driveway, so we'd fit.

@L_

Our children believe there are alligators on the Interstates and Highways, because every time we pass a piece of rubber on the road from a retread, my husband hollars "road gator", and all the kids start looking around.

Paulette

I used to believe that car air conditioning was made because their were ice cubes all along the inside of the car. The hot air from outside would be sucked into the ice cubes, pass them, then blow the cold air on me.

Jen