I got my M3 in Sept 2018 and had it backed in the driveway at my inlaws, where we were relaxing while my wife and her 2 nephews answered the door. One of the kids trick-or-treating said, "we really like your Tesla!", which caught me by surprise. Like you, I'm used to adults, not children, complementing my Tesla.

 

Here in Chicago....MANY kids call out about Tesla's. Many adults with them just look at their kids like they are strange.

I believe kids are more astute concerning cars / technology these days.

 

Those 10yo's will take over the world some day.

 

They surely will. Even I have a daughter, she is 12 years old

 

Tesla's are nowhere near rare enough here for anything like that to happen.

 

More than 40 years ago when my wife and I both had Pontiac TransAms (I had a white '75 400-4sp, my wife had a navy '74 400-auto), my wife remembers stopping at a 4-way stop and a 6 y.o. boy walked by with his mom, "oh, I've always wanted a TransAm just like that one". Of course this was probably right after Smokey and the Bandit made TA's famous. So it's been going on for years.

 

Tesla's are nowhere near rare enough here for anything like that to happen.

Same here. There are five of them just in my small 125 house subdivision...

 

Believe it or not, my 3 1/2 year old grandson calls out every Tesla he sees (both my wife and I drive Teslas) and he even recognizes the Models pretty accurately, as they go by.
This kid will be a CEO one day!

 

On a trip I noticed the same: kids and teenagers would point at my car, thumbs up. They know.