Kicking off the Tesla Roadster unveiling on Thursday, CEO Elon Musk said he brought a live audience to make sure people don't think what the company will show was AI-generated.

During the presentation, the Tesla Roadster successfully performed a number of tricks that boggle the mind and are mostly at odds with anything any regular car can even come close to doing. This includes stupidly fast acceleration, hanging upside-down on an inverted C-ramp, and, yes, flying.

For details about the launch and the car itself, go here. Now, let's just enjoy the best moments from the show. Here are all the tricks Tesla Roadster has performed (the names come from Musk, but we've taken the liberty of naming a few of them ourselves).

If you've just seen Tesla's tweets and not the whole event, you may have missed the best part. Prior to launching itself into the air (the car was remotely controlled; the "driver" sitting inside was a robot) on that C ramp, the Roadster slowly climbs the ramp and first stands completely still vertically, and then goes a step further and literally stands hanging upside down, with the suction fans on the bottom holding it in place and, seemingly, defying gravity. See the entire sequence in the recording of the event, starting at about 6 minutes and 11 seconds in.

Moments after that, the car speeds up that same ramp, launches itself into the air whilst upside down, uses the thrusters to flip itself over, and gently sets itself to the ground.

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