History Main / DinkyDrivers

* Pedal extenders and booster seats exist for drivers with smaller statures.

* The Dalmatian Puppies do this to a London double-decker bus at the end of ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansIIPatchsLondonAdventure''.

* The penguins in ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}: Escape 2 Africa'' operate a plane using chimpanzees as their motor. In ''Madagascar: Europe's Most Wanted'', they drive a car with the help of a steering wheel toy.

* In the Disney live-action movie ''The Gnome-Mobile'', two kids drive a car. Neither is big enough to reach pedals and see over the dashboard, so one steers while the other moves the pedals.

-->'''Hamm:''' ''(reading the owner's manual)'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Oh, I]] ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments seriously]]'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments doubt he's getting this kind of mileage]].

* There's an arc in ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'' where Millie helps Isolde hijack a semi carrying a load of thermometers... it's a long story. Anyway, for whatever reason, [[https://ozyandmillie.org/2004/08/11/ozy-and-millie-1309/ Millie ends up steering]], even though Isolde is tall enough to manage the task herself, and a good deal closer to legal driving age to boot.

* Creator/RoaldDahl recounts in his first autobiography ''Boy: Tales of Childhood'' about how he drove his dad's Austin Seven down a track through the woods to rescue him after he got stuck while trying to hunt pheasants.

** Turns out, this is TruthInTelevision; there have been cases where children have taken cars and have somehow managed to drive them reasonably competently, although it doesn't happen that often:
* In July 2009, a 7-year-old boy in Utah [[http://www.chinoblanco.com/2009/07/seven-year-old-utah-boy-makes-his.html stole his family's car]] in an attempt to get out of going to church.
* In 2011, another 7-year-old boy in Michigan [[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/7-year-old-boy-drives-20-miles-hits-50-mph/ took the family Pontiac Sunfire]] to try and drive to his dad, who lived 12 miles away. He ended up driving for over 20 miles at speeds close to 50 miles per hour before the police managed to urge him to stop the car.

* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': Chuck and Fastener drive their respective owner's cars in Episode 6, this combined with CarFu.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Buzz Lightyear's team of toys commandeer a Pizza Planet truck in pursuit of Al and Woody.

->'''"Slink, take the pedals! Rex, you navigate! Hamm and Potato, operate the levers and knobs!"'''

->"Slink, take the pedals! Rex, you navigate! Hamm and Potato, operate the levers and knobs!"

* In the ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' short "Opportunity Knox", Brain controls the steering wheel of a van with pulleys while Pinky operates the pedals.

* One time on ''TheSimpsons'', Bart was steering while Lisa and Milhouse were operating the gas and brake pedals, and they were doing it kinda randomly. Lisa would push the gas and then Milhouse would push the brake, Lather, rinse, repeat, all without any input from Bart. Milhouse took the opportunity to ask Lisa out.

* Appears in ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' whenever the penguins commandeer a vehicle for their missions.

* The penguings in ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}: Escape 2 Africa'' operate a plane using chimpanzees as their motor. In ''Madagascar: Europe's Most Wanted'', they drive a car with the help of a steering wheel toy.

* Dreamworks' CGI ''Film/OverTheHedge'' movie has the woodland creatures drive Dwayne's van after he gets knocked unconscious; three porcupine kids steer using [[IKnowMortalKombat skills acquired from video games]].

* The Dalmatian Puppies do this to a London double-decker bus at the end of [[Disney/OneHundredandOneDalmatians ''101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure'']].

* The 2006 film ''LittleMan'' features Calvin, a 30" tall dwarf criminal who's pretending to be a toddler as part of a diamond heist. He gets in a car and drives it by using a toy bat to move the pedals.