I don't see why not. there are ~13 parameters any one of which will prevent ASS from stopping the engine. Trailer-Tow Mode engaged, Battery below threshold, Steering angle past a certain degree and 10 or so more like that. It shouldn't be a problem to do an OAT to turn it off permanently, and I think Ford should to save potential warranty costs from premature starter or battery failures.
On the topic itself, we knew losses would continue until the real heavy lifters get going.
Starting from scratch there will be a lot of losses until products start selling.
As am I....I still don't think there is a very large market at this point for say 50K+ EV that struggles (assuming) to go 300 miles per charge.
There is still a lot of conservative buyers out there and given how people are viewing the economy and the future, I'm not sure how many people will be willing to vote with their dollars on something like this.
Actually another failure was not training the pilots that it even existed. Had they known they could have disabled it which is what Boeing expected them to do but Boeing went out of their way to avoid classifying it as a new feature that would have automatically triggered additional training and it was all done to save money.
As long as Ford's systems have some type of failsafe to avoid crashing at 70 mph it should be fine.
The issue is the market never took off-in a vacuum this looks bad for Ford, but its not like other makers aren't experiencing the same issues and having the same drawback in products.
The only upside is that is Ford has another production plant it prob could have used for the past 15-20 years and EV products cancelled are being replaced by other products.