There's a research paper from the University of Liverpool, published in 2006 where researchers asked people to draw bicycles from memory and how people overestimate their understanding of basic things. It was a very fun and short read.
It's called "The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work" by Rebecca Lawson.
There’s also a great art/design project about exactly this. Gianluca Gimini asked hundreds of people to draw a bicycle from memory, and most of them got the frame, proportions, or mechanics wrong.
https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/
It reminds me of an advertising sign I once saw outside a store, which read "Movies, Couch, and Ice Cream." It seemed to me like an apt epitaph for our civilization.
It's called "The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work" by Rebecca Lawson.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/bf03195929.pdf