What you are good at picking up is incidents. That is how we work. How many lives would be saved by using Tesla for surveillance is a lot less tangible, and thus, meaningless in direct comparison. Because there is no comparison, if we don't feel it compares.
Whenever I see people seriously argue against statistics by leaning on stories, it tends to be complicated and sinister. If you are that afraid of your government, if you deem your government to be that irresponsible and also out of your control, that on average you would rather not default support it when fighting crime, then I think you are you confused about what battle you should actually be fighting.
It is not necessarily my government I am fighting for. Coming from the west I feel we sometimes lead the way for human rights and our standards should really be highly debated and analyzed to make sure they are what a society truly believes. If we start to say that mass surveillance is good and sure maybe we have checks and balances but another nation might not stop where we do. So to be opposed to complete surveillance is probably smart for now until we can decide what is the best way to address this. If you think Tesla cameras are so good you should also consider how good it would be if we all had cameras installed in every room in our house and the government could listen in every conversation and decide if we are good or bad or talk about crimes.
Whenever I see people seriously argue against statistics by leaning on stories, it tends to be complicated and sinister. If you are that afraid of your government, if you deem your government to be that irresponsible and also out of your control, that on average you would rather not default support it when fighting crime, then I think you are you confused about what battle you should actually be fighting.