Go X Wins Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Award for World's First Self-Driving Scooters

Go X

21 Sep 2022 — 2 min read

We Built the World's First. Fast Company Noticed.

Fast Company just doesn't give World Changing Ideas Awards to anyone.

They've given them to Microsoft. To IBM. To Patagonia. To the biggest innovations that actually change how the world works.

And, they gave one to Go X.

Alexander Debelov w/ Go X Apollo Scooters

The Innovation: World's First Self-Driving Scooters

We didn't just improve scooters. We made them drive themselves.

Go X Apollo (goxapollo.com) launched 100 autonomous scooters that could:

Drive themselves to you when requested
Return to charging stations automatically
Park themselves in designated zones
Eliminate sidewalk clutter forever

This wasn't a concept. This wasn't a demo. This was the world's first 100x operational self-driving scooter fleet, serving real riders on real streets.

Why This Award Matters

Fast Company is THE global authority on innovation. When they say something is world-changing, the entire tech world listens.

Their World Changing Ideas Award is the highest recognition an innovation can receive. It's the difference between saying "we're innovative" and having the world's most prestigious innovation platform confirm it.

Out of thousands of entries from billion-dollar companies, they chose our self-driving scooters as a 2021 World Changing Ideas Honorable Mention for North America.

What We Proved

While competitors were hiring vans to collect scattered scooters every night (burning gas, creating chaos), we built scooters smart enough to take care of themselves.

While cities were banning scooter companies left and right, we created technology that cities actually wanted.

While everyone else was making incremental improvements, we eliminated entire categories of problems.

Fast Company recognized what we built wasn't just better – it was revolutionary.

The Legacy Lives On

Visit goxapollo.com to see how this world-first technology evolved. That Fast Company recognition validated our vision: transportation should be intelligent, not just electric.

Today, we're in cities nationwide with 350+ business partners because we don't just follow trends – we create them. We were first. Everyone else is still catching up.

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