plugged

I know there was a previous thread on this subject, but it's kinda old, so I thought I'd ask 'How many people leave their iPod plugged in all the time'?

Does anyone know why my iPod music starts playing automatically as soon as I plug in my iPhone to the car? Is this an iPhone setting or a Genesis stereo setting? Strange thing is that it seems to always start playing the same song, regardless of what I was last playing. It's kind of annoying...

This thread is a follow-on to lengthy discussions/experiments posted under the thread "How turn off engine and leave A/V on?" (btw, that issue was solved by stopping engine in Neutral and keeping your foot off the brake pedal). Once that was posted, the thread turned to the abnormality (?) of...