Juddering and traction control light

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    Hello! I got my 2013 Prius a few weeks ago. It has 80,000 miles on it. I was going about 30 mph when it suddenly felt like my brakes had engaged automatically, accompanied by a scraping noise. The traction control light also came on. The noise and feeling were like a tire had blown or kind of like driving with the emergency brake on. I pulled over and didn’t see anything wrong with my tires. So I got back on the road and it happened again at around 25mph. I turned off the car and started it up again and it drove smoothly the rest of the way home. Any idea what this might be?
     
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    The only time my traction light came on was when the front tires spun on wet pavement. Was it the 2 squiggly yellow lines?
    Probably some more help on here in a bit.
     
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    Yeah, the squiggly lines. In my previous Prius, I’ve had those come on in snow, but never just out of the blue.
     
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    Did you pick up debris between a rotor and backing plate? Which fell off after your second event?
     
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    This sounds Very Reasonable.... because it has happened to me with my van

    Only thing kinda funny is the traction control light.....unless it slowed the wheel down.
     
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    If something got wedged in there tight, it undoubtedly slowed the rotation, which beyond a certain delta RPM would trigger the traction control circuit and light.
     
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    Are all four tires the same size and style?

    With a scan tool, I would let a copilot watch the four wheel RPMs while I drove down a straight road, to see if they were all reading the same.
     
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    Catastrophic EGR failure...
     
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