Wouldn’t reflectors work better and be low-to-no technology to allow Amish to keep to their tradition? I’m thinking similar material to diamond grade street signs.

They already use those. This goes a lot deeper than “buggies are hard to see” and gets into governmentally preferred classes. Requiring the Amish switch from reflectors to lights is an act of both victim blaming and attempted cultural erasure

Horse-drawn carriages are slow-moving vehicles just like construction or agricultural equipment, or stationary obstacles. They present a danger if visibility is limited by weather or the road’s curvature.

Where I live, every vehicle is required to be illuminated when outside city limits, including carriages, and the horses themselves.

I hate this framing. The danger doesn’t come from the slow moving buggies, it comes from cars moving too fast to stop within the driver’s line of sight. Instead of a buggy, the “obstacle” could also be a pedestrian, a deer or a fallen tree. Should blinking lights be required for those, too?

You can hate it all you want if that makes you feel superior, but it’s still true.

could also be a pedestrian, a deer or a fallen tree

High-vis equipment is required here when a person has to spend an extended period on roads outside inhabited areas (actually high-vis gear is mandatory in all motor vehicles), and are required to walk on the left side to always have oncoming traffic in sight as opposed to behind. Larger roads have mitigation structures (mounds, fences, warnings signs, speed limits, or grade separation) where wildlife is known to cause problems. Our taxes pay for road inspection and maintenance services to clear natural or manmade obstacles.

If there are people on the roads they aren’t uninhabited.

“She was asking for going to that neighborhood dressed like that”

What’s the equivalent of rape culture but for cars mowing people down left and right?