Are you sure that stalling at the end of an emergency stop will fail you? When I was learning, I’m sure I was told that it was the one time at which stalling is no problem, provided you go through the whole check-you’re-in-neutral-etc. routine when restarting afterwards.
Also keep in mind that ABS - like other fancy gadgets - sometimes doesn’t work. I think true driving competence is knowing how to control your car when your traction control, ABS, and regular brakes go out. Better be safe than sorry!
As of 2005, a driver could still be drinking beer only (no wine or liquor, I don’t know why) as long as he wasn’t legally intoxicated in the state of West Virginia. It may have changed, and some municipalities had open container laws, but the state did not.
It may still be legal, I’m not sure…
Regarding emergency stops, I’m a doctor and where I work we tell people that how long they mustn’t drive after surgery depends on their insurance company, but we recommend not driving for 4-6 weeks after any major abdominal surgery, and that they definitely shouldn’t drive until they can safely perform an emergency stop.
I’m not sure about that (stalling on an emergency stop) but I did manage to stall once on my car test - I had stopped at a sign, in second gear as I was taught, shifted down to first and stalled as I eased forward to see whether it was clear to pull away. I passed. Perhaps I passed because I didn’t stall anywhere dangerous. I wasn’t halfway into the main road or anything like that, but still safely behind the stop line.
Should you stall when making an emergency stop this is not a fail.
As GorillaMan says, above, you have to go through the correct procedures before re-starting the engine
This quote is a good reminder that most of our driving laws are at the state level rather than federal - in my state you must go to the DMV to get your license renewed and must pass a vision test every single time, even if it’s your first renewal and you’re only 20. There are also even more local laws too: in my town it’s only been a handful of years since you didn’t have to go to the town hall every year to renew your vehicle registration (which I bet is what the OP got confused by, since it’s the only yearly thing I can think of that pertains to driving) in person. Now we can finally do it by mail.
Um… no. Not now you come to mention it.
I managed to stall four times before I’d got a quarter of a mile from the test centre, just from nerves. I still passed first time, though.
I too stalled once during my test. Kept my head, put on the handbrake, put it into neutral, started engine, mirror-signal-manoeuvre - and passed first time.
I took my driving test in the mid 1960’s when you still had to give hand-signals. During the test there was a violent thunderstorm, but I had to have the window wound down to give the signals. I passed the test, but with all my right side soaking wet.
I’ve now remembered the advice I got given for the emergency stop: “Don’t worry if you stall, at least it’ll stop you moving!”
Same here but it was snowing. My hands were slipping on the wheel so I mentioned that to the examiner, wound up the window and carried on using the electric indicators. He never said a word. Passed (first time)
That’s it, go on, rub it in.
Bugger
Well, I had had my test cancelled a couple of months earlier after I pulled out in front of a lorry at a roundabout in Aylesbury. The language off the man! If I’d have gone for it then, I’d definitely have failed.
I’ll join in, then 
And me. In spite of that thunderstorm, I passed first time.
Yeah well bollocks to the lot of you, first time passers, bloody show-offs
If it makes you feel any better, I had five crashes in the first year, and two the next, culminating in me writing off my dad’s Mini.
Two months after passing my test I went to work in Nigeria for a year. I had several crashes, including a (slow) head-on collision with a bus on a single-track bridge. No injuries, just a slightly bent front end on the car.
Green L plates are technically illegal.