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direction indicators: Do you mean turn lights? A.k.a. flashers. Those blinking thingies at the back and front of the cars you need to use when changing lanes and turning?

Absolutely

I'm not sure because I don't know exactly what you mean that they only use them when overtaking. What do you mean by overtaking?

I mean when you pull out of the lane you're driving in in order to pass a slower moving vehicle.



Don' it just!



Mostly here we calls them turn signals when using them to indicate upcoming turns or lane changes (if one is changing lanes to pass another vehicle the fact of passing is incidental, it's the lane change that should be signaled). They're flashers only when they are both going at the same time, usually being used to indicate that one is traveling slower than expected or parked in an unlikely place.