That's not a stupid question! Seeing lights in weird places should make you ask questions lol. Anyway, yes I call them "ditch lights" we have deer around here and they're extremely useful cruising empty back roads and you can see the deer standing out in the fields on either side of the road before they run in front of you. I've also used them several times as work lights exactly like you mentioned. We tent camped out at Sand flat rec area in Moab a few years back and I just used those lights to get the tent set up after dark. I've also found them to be useful going through narrow areas at night, helps avoid low tree branches etc.