cars

i used to believe that if you were a kid and u turned the radio on in your car then the car would blow up

steph

I used to think that cruise control meant the car steered itself. I always wondered how it knew when to take curves.

Jaime

When I was like 7, my mom told me that if I didn't put on my seat belt, the cops siren and lights would go off and take me to jail. So for a long time, I always had my seatbelt.

Anon

I used to think that if you didn't put on your seatbelt, you WOULD crash.

Mer

I used to believe that the arrows in the car stating which direction you are turning really told you which direction you are going to take, like the car already knew where you were going beforehand.

Christa

It was 1984 and I was 10 years old, at school we had a project to do, we had to do a book all about about yourself, well the last part of the project was to answer the following question: what do you think the world will be like in the year 2000? I was totally convinced that because the year sounded so futuristic that there was no reason why there wouldn't be flying cars, I believed this for a few years and seeing 'Back to the future'(at the end, they fly into the future) confirmed to me that this was likely to happen, then I grew up and got real

Giz (can my car take off yet?)

when we were young, my friend and i thought that the old jiffy lube commercial, ( every 3,000 miles) meant that each station was LITERALLY EVERY 3,000 miles and each were at exactly a 3,000 mile radius to eachother and exactly pinpointed all over the globe, (even in the ocean and things) and we always wondered WHY you would drive so far away to get your oil changed when they sold it in the gas station...

yeah well we were young

I used to believe that when my mom got a new Ford Explorer, that the old car, The Nova was in storage. I found out when I was 10 and in 4th grade that The Nova went the to junkyardT_T

Sailorlove90

For YEARS I believed that when people on traffic reports announced a bridge opening, that that bridge had been actually closed until then and nobody could get across it.

anon.

I used to believe that it was against the law to have your window down while on the motorway, because everytime we would go out in the car, just as we were getting on the motorway my dad would shout "shut the window!". I believed it until I was 17, and only now have found out that it was due to the car going faster when there was no wind coming in - thanks dad!

polly

As a child I always thought that windshield squirters got their water from previous rainstorms.

Made sense to me!

scooterboy

I believed there was a button hid on the ceiling of my car and at certain times on the highway my parents would puch it and it would make a rumbling noise. I late came to know it was the car driving over the ridges in the highway.

Kayla

I used to believe that there was a monster under my father's car, and whenever I looked down there, it would make this gurgling noise, and it would come out to get me. I still don't like looking underneath cars to this day.

Lauren

My mother always made me lock the car door. She would tell me if I didnt, then if I touched it, I would fall out and possibly be run over.

Steve

When I was about five, my little brother and I rode in my Granddad's car with him. He told us that he had a "magical car" and whenever we said, "Windows, open/close!" or "Doors, lock/unlock!" When we did, the doors and windows would do just that! MAGICAL! I believed this for years and years until my mother got a car with power windows and power locks. Even for a year or two after that, it took a little while for me to figure out that Granddad's car was NOT magic.

Rikki

I thought if you did the gearshift or anything the wrong way on a car, it would blow up. When I was 13, my grandpa decided to have me drive and I refused saying I might blow up the car. He insisted and I was so terrified the whole time that I would only go about 5 miles an hour.

Anon

I used to think that when I was in the car,I was invisible. So I would always make faces at other cars and stick my tongue out at them.

Erika

When I was a little girl, I believed that pink cars didn't exist. I think some kids in the kindergarten had told me that. So, one day when we were on a bus trip somewhere, we saw a pink car, and of course I got really surprised..

Skrunn

I used to believe that various cars with exhaust pipes (tailpipes) when the smoke came out, that's what made the car move. i.e. if tailpipe came straight out the back, that made the car go FAST, if it came out to the side, means it went SLOW.

AUTOTECH

When I was little, I didn't know one car make and model from another. Once, I saw a red car and asked my dad what it was. he told me it was a Ford, and from that day forward (until years later), I believed that all red cars were Fords.

Ivona