the city is stuck in the past

[alpacinoutd]

Is this good?

The world was now almost two decades into the twenty first century, the age of driverless electric cars but this city was stuck in the 1990s. The tired diesel cars in the city belched a thick black smoke that blackened the lungs of their drivers.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Is this good?

The world was now almost two decades into the twenty-first century, the age of driverless electric cars, but this city was stuck in the 1990s. The tired diesel cars in the city belched a thick black smoke that blackened the lungs of their drivers.

I like it.

One note: Diesel exhaust usually blackens the lungs of the drivers behind the belching cars and trucks, not their own drivers. So I got rid of their.

[Tdol]

Or blackened drivers' lungs