Excellent link! I've been looking for a term to stand in place of "we're not allowed to blame ordinary people for ordinary problems," and I think O'Rourke's term "blameless citizenry" is exactly that term.
This issue has been going on for 25 years, that was written in like 1986. Are the people with sudden acceleration issues today the same people that had them 25 years ago? Or is it a new generation? I wonder what would be revealed if complaints were mapped geographically and demographically, 25 years later.