Leo’s father, Karl, had been a long-haul trucker in real life until his knees gave out. After that, he’d lived behind the wheel of a virtual Scania R620, hauling imaginary pallets of electronics from Berlin to Prague. He’d loved version 1.9.24.1s specifically. “It had the right feel,” he’d say. “The brakes bit just so. The rain on the windshield looked like actual tears. Before they ‘improved’ it.”