That's precisely right, the little rhinestone looking jewels around the reflector lens are just decorations. Buzz Lightyear to the rescue! The Infiniti rep confirmed that to my salesman when I asked for an answer on what the heck they are. Our Volvo XC70 has bixenon night lights, but round halogen lights to the inside of them that come on automatically during the day. Without as much concern for dazzle with the brighter daytime ambient light, they don't hold back on the lens fluting to make them look very prominent. I can spot the car coming a long way away. I like it, I personally feel safer with them. I've heard there is no evidence that high mount center stop lights reduce accidents. Yeah, right....
I initially thought LED DRLs were interesting. Then Audi started doing the curvy ones that look like Snidely Whiplash's mustache (Snidely was Bullwinkle Moose's nemesis). Now I see LED DRLs in Kias. So the exclusivity is gone. And you can buy generic kits on ebay to add to your car, kinda like punks who put in the blue glass light bulbs trying to imitate the violet off axis optics of an HID bulb behind a projector lens. It comes off dumb, the add on LEDs would look as cheesy. Remember the fake cell phone antennas you could get at K-Mart to stick on your car window to make people think you were cool enough to have a cell phone, but you really didn't? Just give me some good old fashioned bright DRLs, thank you...