Supported cars

NAP supports the 2012–2014 Tesla Model S — specifically the pre-Autopilot variants built before Tesla began installing the Autopilot hardware stack. That covers roughly the first 25,000 Model S vehicles ever produced.

How to tell if your car is pre-AP

The clearest sign is the absence of Autopilot itself: if your car has never offered lane keeping or adaptive cruise as a factory feature, it is almost certainly pre-AP.

More concretely:

• Build date — pre-AP cars were built before roughly late 2014. VINs below approximately 100,000 are in the right range, but VIN alone is not definitive since Tesla was mid-production-change during 2014.
• No AP ECU — AP1 cars have an Autopilot ECU (the "Integrated Radar Controller" or DAS unit) mounted behind the frunk. Pre-AP cars have no such hardware.
• No forward-facing camera — the windshield area above the rear-view mirror has no camera housing on a pre-AP car.
• Cruise stalk behavior — pre-AP cruise control operates only above roughly 18 mph (29 km/h). If your stock cruise control has no follow-distance adjustment and no stop-and-go, that is consistent with pre-AP.
• Tesla account — your Tesla online account or the car's settings will not show any Autopilot or Enhanced Autopilot features if the car is pre-AP.

If you are uncertain, the quickest check is to pull the frunk liner and look for the AP ECU mounting location and associated harness. A pre-AP frunk has no such hardware.

MCU1 vs MCU2

The Model S infotainment system changed mid-production from MCU1 (NVIDIA Tegra-based, portrait display) to MCU2 (Intel-based, landscape display). This is a separate hardware change from Autopilot and does not affect whether the car is pre-AP.

NAP itself works with both MCU1 and MCU2. The distinction matters only for the legacy Tinkla Buddy instrument-cluster integration device, which required MCU1's architecture and has no MCU2 equivalent. If you are running a current NAP install with a comma 3X, MCU version is irrelevant.

What is not supported

AP1 Model S (2015–2016) — these cars have Autopilot hardware, a different connection point, and a different safety model. Some owners ran Tinkla's AP1 branch. If you have an AP1 or later (HW1+) car, head to the xnor wiki — it covers those cars the way this wiki covers pre-AP. The SunnyPilot-TeslaHW1 fork also works on AP1 cars. The history of Tinkla's AP1/AP2 work is at AP1/AP2 Teslas.

AP2 Model S/X and Model 3/Y — these cars have fully integrated camera-and-radar Autopilot hardware. NAP does not support them.

Pre-AP Model X — the Model X was never produced in a pre-AP configuration that shipped at volume, so there is no support and no tested configuration.

2014 "transition" cars with partial AP hardware — some late-2014 Model S vehicles were built with partial AP wiring but no active AP ECU. These have not been systematically tested. If your car sits in this range and you want to try NAP, the Discord is the right place to ask before proceeding.