The Amish in most places are now permitted to drive. I recently bought a horse from an Ohio Amish family, and the entire family brought him on the delivery drive. It was around 250 miles, and the furthest any of them had ever been from home. A twenty year old son drove - neither father nor mother knew how. Another son, 15 yrs old, knew how to drive, but was too young to drive on the highway.

We put them up for the night, but all the children (5) camped out in front of the large screen TV for hours - they had never before seen a TV. Although we spaced them out in four bedrooms, the three youngest (5 yrs to 11)spent the night in the parents' room, concerned by the strangeness of a different bedroom from home.

Years ago, when I still worked summers as a commercial pilot, I delivered a freight load to Lancaster Pennsylvania. I ran across several autos with bumpers and all the other chrome painted black. I was told the drivers were Amish who had learned to drive when drafted into the military (WW-II), and the local bishop had forbidden them to drive any vehicle with bright and shiny stuff.

There's lots more to their story, much of it unhappy....