Isn't that how you get any organism's attention against its will? You scare it.
if fine cost * probability of fine being issued > cost to address then address else end.
Would you really give up one of your yachts this year just to save ten thousand lives?
The obvious fix is some kind of government/regulatory involvement that introduces additional fines/costs for bad behaviour, whether specific to endangering the public or more broad. And of course, sometimes this is upfront standards stuff like we have for emissions, lighting, seatbelts, etc, whereas other times it's prosecuted as a negligence charge after that fact.