HOKAY, so here's my issue. In the following code, I'm having an issue where I don't want to use the smooth camera (mostly because I hate the look of it), so I found some nice code for a camera that "slides" into place whenever you turn. It really looks quite nice when you're turning. Unfortunately, whenever you stop moving, the camera still attempts to slide into place, even though there's nowhere to slide. This causes it to slowly flip-the-hell-out, shooting from side to side. It also has the issue that when you first get into car, it's always facing to the side, rather than just automatically setting behind the car. Halp plz!

public class CarCamera : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform target = null;
    public float height = 1f;
    public float positionDamping = 3f;
    public float velocityDamping = 3f;
    public float distance = 4f;
    public LayerMask ignoreLayers = -1;

    private RaycastHit hit = new RaycastHit();

    private Vector3 prevVelocity = Vector3.zero;
    private LayerMask raycastLayers = -1;

    private Vector3 currentVelocity = Vector3.zero;

    void Start()
    {
       raycastLayers = ~ignoreLayers;
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
       currentVelocity = Vector3.Lerp(prevVelocity, target.root.rigidbody.velocity, velocityDamping * Time.deltaTime);
       currentVelocity.y = 0;
       prevVelocity = currentVelocity;
    }

    void LateUpdate()
    {
       float speedFactor = Mathf.Clamp01(target.root.rigidbody.velocity.magnitude / 70.0f);
       camera.fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(55, 72, speedFactor);
       float currentDistance = Mathf.Lerp(7.5f, 6.5f, speedFactor);

       currentVelocity = currentVelocity.normalized;

       Vector3 newTargetPosition = target.position + Vector3.up * height;
       Vector3 newPosition = newTargetPosition - (currentVelocity * currentDistance);
       newPosition.y = newTargetPosition.y;

       Vector3 targetDirection = newPosition - newTargetPosition;
       if(Physics.Raycast(newTargetPosition, targetDirection, out hit, currentDistance, raycastLayers))
         newPosition = hit.point;

       transform.position = newPosition;
       transform.LookAt(newTargetPosition);

    }
}