Mrs Beest drives the S60 a lot more these days, Gmac. And ours does have an Off position for the lights, as I had the DRLs disabled when the car was three months old. Round here, though, with all its tree-lined roads and dappled light, especially in summer, a dark green car can become worryingly invisible, so the switch spends a lot of time in the On position but with the beam adjuster (another control Mrs Beest doesn't really understand, although even her Fabia had one) set to its lowest.
The LEC, incidentally, has bi-xenon lights that level themselves, so the option of pointing them down when they're just there to be seen isn't available. They're vastly better than the S60's halogens for seeing my way at night, but I've wondered whether parking lights alone (which illuminate the whole inner lamp housing) might be enough in those situations. Would go against the grain, but I saw a police Astra this morning doing just that with its pinprick parking lights, and the LEC's would certainly show up better than those.
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