Well, that’s going to complicate the driving test.

This week’s Video of the Week is The Ramp, from Tesla. Forty-five seconds in which a Roadster drives up an enormous curved ramp, hangs upside down, then leaves the surface, rights itself in the air and lands.

Squeezing into that parking space at the station suddenly feels a rather modest achievement.

There’s something wonderfully childish about the whole thing. The sort of manoeuvre you attempted with a Matchbox car aged seven, before discovering that the landing usually involved the skirting board. Somebody at Tesla has apparently decided that the problem was insufficient engineering.

Tesla’s explanation is fascinating. Fans pull air out from underneath the car, creating enough suction to hold it against the ramp even when stationary and upside down. Cold-gas thrusters then make rapid adjustments to stabilise it in the air.

Which sounds almost reasonable until you watch it again.

What I particularly like is the sheer ambition of the demonstration. Someone had to propose this. Other people then had to work out how to build it, test it and get it to perform in front of an audience. Imagine being the person responsible for the ramp.

“How’s work?”

“Fine. Car’s on the ceiling again.”

Of course, a controlled demonstration leaves plenty of questions about practical use. There’s a considerable distance between doing this at a launch event and being allowed to deploy it when someone’s blocking the exit at Tesco.

But there’s room to enjoy a remarkable piece of engineering without immediately demanding that it solve the school run.

There’s an AI connection here too, albeit a slightly backwards one. We’ve become so accustomed to machines generating impossible-looking footage that an actual demonstration now has to compete with our suspicion that somebody simply typed it into a video tool. Tesla’s accompanying description of this as a live demo matters.

For anyone marketing property, that’s an interesting thought. As extraordinary imagery becomes easier to produce, showing people how something was made - and what actually happened - may become a bigger part of earning their trust.

For now, though, enjoy the car on the ceiling.

We can update the particulars to “ample airborne parking” another day.