Yes Juvecu, that is true. But then, they'd loose their purpose of being DRL's, and that is what I installed them for. On the other hand, they simply don't have the "beam". It means, there is no beam going out of them pointing somewhere. They spread the light all over.
Mathematically, it seems impossible but in practice it's different. They won't illuminate much more then 5 metres ahead of you at night, so, much less then LO beam, let alone HI beam. But, if you step away from the bike like 100 metres during a day, you don't see that LO beam is even on but you see perfectly strong DRL's.
If you want something to assist your HI beam, there are many other types of Cree lights that include lens for compressing the light in one beam and are built for the purpose.